Description: The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl PRODUCT DETAILS: Product Description Winner of the 2020 Midwest Book Award in Autobiography/Memoir, The Color of Love is an unforgettable memoir about a mixed-race Jewish woman who, after fifteen years of estrangement from her racist great-aunt, helps bring her home when Alzheimer’s strikes. In 1970, three-day-old Marra B. Gad was adopted by a white Jewish family in Chicago. For her parents, it was love at first sight—but they quickly realized the world wasn’t ready for a family like theirs. Marra’s biological mother was unwed, white, and Jewish, and her biological father was black. While still a child, Marra came to realize that she was “a mixed-race, Jewish unicorn.” In black spaces, she was not “black enough” or told that it was OK to be Christian or Muslim, but not Jewish. In Jewish spaces, she was mistaken for the help, asked to leave, or worse. Even in her own extended family, racism bubbled to the surface. Marra’s family cut out those relatives who could not tolerate the color of her skin—including her once beloved, glamorous, worldly Great-Aunt Nette. After they had been estranged for fifteen years, Marra discovers that Nette has Alzheimer’s, and that only she is in a position to get Nette back to the only family she has left. Instead of revenge, Marra chooses love, and watches as the disease erases her aunt’s racism, making space for a relationship that was never possible before. The Color of Love explores the idea of yerusha, which means "inheritance" in Yiddish. At turns heart-wrenching and heartwarming, this is a story about what you inherit from your family—identity, disease, melanin, hate, and most powerful of all, love. With honesty, insight, and warmth, Marra B. Gad has written an inspirational, moving chronicle proving that when all else is stripped away, love is where we return, and love is always our greatest inheritance. Review Praise for Marra B. Gad’s The Color of Love: Winner of the 2020 Midwest Book Award in Autobiography/Memoir presented by the Midwest Independent Publishers Association "In The Color of Love, Gad tells her story in straightforward, unadorned prose. . . . The reader is left to marvel at Gad's magnanimity. In the face of a lifetime of racially motivated aggression, she consistently chooses love." —Jerusalem Post "This beautiful memoir will stay with readers long after the last page is turned." —The Reporter "Offers a Jewish mode of love. . . Institutions have much to learn from reading The Color of Love." — "An easy narrative on a complicated experience. It is a deeply personal story through which the author has shared a perspective that is seldom told." —Jewish Book Council "In beautiful, fearless prose, Gad tells a is alternately heart-wrenching and heartwarming." —JUF News "Gad's message about resisting hate is solid. . . . [An] honest memoir about looking beyond hate to find some semblance of peace on the other side." —Kirkus Reviews " The Color of Love provides a much needed voice to this space in society today. But maybe even more than this, Marra's story serves as a reminder, a guide for all of us, from all backgrounds, to choose love. Always." —Glassworks "Marra's journey to unconditional love, forgiveness, and compassion in the face of hate and rejection is nothing short of miraculous." —Tina Alexis Allen, author of Hiding Out “Marra B. Gad’s The Color of Love is a timely and touching memoir of a biracial girl adopted by a Jewish family. It is a story of her ‘awakening’ to the inherent pressures of being black and female in a white world, pressures that are compounded by being adopted and raised in a white Jewish culture. Her pursuit to live a life of love in a world of racial, religious, and anti-feminist hate and bigotry was a continuous battle toward finding her soul. For a good life-affirming read, I highly recommend The Color of Love.” —Ron Stallworth, New York Times–bestselling author of Black Klansman “An astonishin PAYMENT SHIPPING RETURNS We only accept payment through PayPal. This is to ensure that all of our buyers qualify for eBay Buyer Protection. Most orders are shipped within 1-2 business days with standard shipping and tracking. A tracking number will be posted as soon as the item has shipped. Please make sure to provide the correct shipping address during checkout as the address cannot be changed afterwards. We are not responsible for any incorrect or undeliverable addresses. We do not ship to PO/APO Boxes. We offer easy returns on most items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund.
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Book Title: Color of Love : a Memoir of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl
Item Length: 8in.
Item Height: 0.5in.
Item Width: 5.2in.
Author: Marra B. Gad
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Women, Judaism / Rituals & Practice, Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publisher: Agate Publishing, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2019
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Religion, Social Science
Item Weight: 8.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
